Sick gigs

cichlidconvert

cichlidconvert

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Well I'm gonna need to treat my blue and purple gig. They have shrunk down and have gaping mouths shortened Tentacles balding and moving around. So tonight I'm gonna move them into quarantine and start medicating. The problem is the blue and the green are attached to the same large rock:-/ so I may have to medicate all three. When I do that I'm gonna possibly move the haddoni out also.
 
Well the purple was placed in the display tank on the seventeenth of june and pulled on the eighteenth because it looked sick. That was almost a month ago. My blue was acting funny for a week or so so my guess is the purple got it sick. My haddoni was acting funny too but I attributed this to it eating a wrasse. But now the haddoni is elevated in the rocks and not the sand. It is only an inch or two up in the rock work. I'm gonna do some tests also. One other guess is that we had a heat wave two weeks ago and I had a fan blowing which raised the salinity a bunch and this coincided with some of the weird behavior. But being intertidal anemones I doubt this is the only reason. But now they look sick for whatever reason. I will check parameters also. Sg at this point is 1.025 which is lower than I had been keeping them but should be fine. I haven't moved the nems to qt yet because I am pondering putting the green in too despite it looking very healthy. If I leave it I have to peel the blue. I'm able to but that will be a nervous moment doing so. I just don't want to stress the green with treatment but maybe I should.
 
Ok I was able to oh so carefully peel the blue gig and put it in the HT along with the purple. Once in the HT the purple had a gaping mouth showing it's stomach the blue sat down with a closed mouth. I immediately applied 250mg of cipro and covered the tank with a dark towel to keep put the light out. It's like crock pot cooking. Pour in the ingredients and then set it up and check in 10 hours. If cipro works on these two I will truly be amazed, especially if the purple makes it. I should have taken pics but i was in a rush.
 
I added the purple which was the third. It was thriving after treatment and plunged after the heat wave along with the blue. The green nem is looking awesome still.
 
The purple gig came one second away from being pulled. It wasn't disintegrating and only had some stick it was no longer attached to the rock. But I'm pulling it if it doesn't improve today. Here is the sad pic.
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Hind sight is always 20/20. I guess you did not treat the Purple adequately the last time you treated it.
I would never add an anemone that have the possibility of been sick into a system with healthy Gigantea.
Best of luck with them.
 
I treated it for 5 days. But now I think I should have gone at least 7-8 days. The blue seemed to get sick first. I wonder whether adding that gig after the one week in qt. And then it getting sick and passing it to the blue and then getting it back. I say that because the blue was acting funny before the purple. I don't know but I am hoping I can at least save the blue. I came home and the purple had expanded and the mouth was open like this.
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It looks like progress or am I just optimistic?
 
Aww man thats hard to look at. How much flow do you have in there? Do you have an airstone? Iv always had a nice strong air pump running a 6inch airstone.

Gigs liv pretty shallow in nature where there are strong currents. The currents are very turbid and have high levels of oxygen saturation.
 
I have a pump running 160 gph I have a nano koralia Eco pump at 240 maybe both. I ran the pump near them and the purple isn't attached to the bottoms to much flow on it sends all over but if I run both I can make the currents bounce around. And maybe it will keep a random enough flow. Im just waiting till lights out to deliver the second dose.
 
I came home and the water temp was 90 and the pump had failed. They look dead and the water is cloudy. I changed what water I had and... I think I'm not gonna be able to save them and it is absolutely devastating. I'm cursing every wrong move and this hobby to be honest. Its going to be hard to recover from this. This wasn't the birthday present I was looking for.
 
I feel your pain. This is a terrible loss. Fortunately, you can try again with confidence that Cipro will help the QT process.

For others who are seeing this, I can't stress how important it is to QT your gigs with Cipro for a full week even if they look fine. I even recommend QTing ALL gigs even if they look fine. IME gigs actually start to look like they're acclimating nicely, then turn during the third week. At this point they've already spread their ailment to other gigs in the tank. This is also the reason I recommend QTing gigs in individual tanks.
 
I very sorry to read your post today. Best of luck with your green one. From more than one personal experiences, loosing these beautiful anemones from our own mistakes are devastating (Magnifica and Blue Haddoni).
 
D-Nak said:
For others who are seeing this, I can't stress how important it is to QT your gigs with Cipro for a full week even if they look fine. I even recommend QTing ALL gigs even if they look fine. IME gigs actually start to look like they're acclimating nicely, then turn during the third week. At this point they've already spread their ailment to other gigs in the tank. This is also the reason I recommend QTing gigs in individual tanks.
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Couldn't agree more, particularly if you are adding one to a system that already has a healthy one. When I treated my Mag, I only did 5 days, but it was (and still is) the only nem in my tank so I figured I could pull it if something went amiss. Doing this again, I would definately do the full 7 days.
 
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